August 27, 2012 1:22pm EDTAugust 27, 2012 12:09pm EDTSomething could happen at Fenway Park Monday that hasn’t happened since May 15, 2003. No, Josh Beckett will not cooperate with reporters. It’s too late for that, at least in Boston.

If the sellout streak at Fenway Park did not end Monday, who knows when how long the Red Sox will keep it going?

And it did not end for the afternoon game against the Royals. The club said before the matinee against the Royals that it already had sold enough tickets to call it a sellout, extending the streak to 782 games.

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The streak, the longest in U.S. pro sports history, might just make it to the end of the season. The Red Sox will head out on a three-stop trip to the West Coast after MondayÕs game, returning home Friday, Sept. 7, for a weekend series against the Blue Jays. Then the Yankees visit for three games.

After that, the Red Sox are scheduled for only five more home games as four of their final six series on the road.

After the club wiped more than $250 million in salaries off their books and cleaned the clubhouse of a couple of attitude issues with their weekend mega deal with the Dodgers, it seems like a good time to let go of another part of the bygone era.

The sellout streak has been considered a result of generous ticket accounting as much as actual attendance for a great portion of this season. The Red Sox, in fact, seem to be somewhat embarrassed about keeping the streak. There not a mention of it in the daily notes released by the team on Sunday. Nevertheless, the streak lives on, for now.